What about this little cobalt blue?

[CoilyGirl]

Fits in the palm of my hand.The top being sheared off like this has me scratching my head at its age as does the fact that the seam goes over the lip but the whole bottle seems very crudely made.

 

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[surf]

Hey Coily.

It's a burst top British Castor Oil.



"Burst Top
This lip finish, found on nearly all Boat Ink, Castor
Oil and early Sauce / Relish bottles is a good
indication of a bottle manufactured before 1910." Antique Bottles - Glossary

 

[CoilyGirl]

Hey Coily. It's a burst top British Castor Oil. <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=912332"/> "Burst Top This lip finish, found on nearly all Boat Ink, Castor Oil and early Sauce / Relish bottles is a good indication of a bottle manufactured before 1910." Antique Bottles - Glossary

I knew I had seen burst tops on inks and wasn't sure how old they would be.at the CW show this weekend I saw several Colonial bottles that had a burst top as well so naturally I was excited when my husband showed me this one he bought.As always,thank you for your help.Did you see my other thread about the purple worchestershire bottle ?

 

[Harry Pristis]

If you mean "American Colonial" bottles, I don't think the bottles you saw were 'burst top' bottles. For one thing, I don't think the blow-back mold was developed by 1776 . . . I think it was a late 19th Century innovation. Further, I can't think of any American bottle with a burst top (that is, was blown in a blow-back mold).

This is predominantly a British technique (and certainly Britain had many colonies at the TOC20 which may have imported the British blow-back mold.) In my very limited experience with Australian and Canadian bottles, for example, I don't recall any burst-top finishes.

Cecil Munsey in his COLLECTING BOTTLES talks about the blow-back mold on pp. 40 and illustrates one (a good photo) on pp. 44.

We have at least one Canadian collector here . . . how about some insight on Canadian burst-top bottles?

 

[Peyton Manning]

I love the color, however your photography makes me dizzy.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Maybe they weren't burst top then Harry but they were rough on the edges like this one.I'm still trying to learn,there is so much about bottle collecting that I don't have a handle on. Sorry Jay - gee,don't know how to turn my pics correctly I post from my phone,stand on yer head.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Maybe they weren't burst top then Harry but they were rough on the edges like this one.I'm still trying to learn,there is so much about bottle collecting that I don't have a handle on. Sorry Jay - gee,don't know how to turn my pics correctly I post from my phone,stand on yer head.

You would love Cecil Munsey's book, CGirl. You can probably can still buy it (used) on Amazon for just a few dollars . . . a really good investment for a collector.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Thank you Harry,I will check that out.We were thinking about buying Kovel's 7th edition from Amazon.

 

[surf]

We were thinking about buying Kovel's 7th edition from Amazon.

Hey Coily,

I'd save your money on that one, though it can be had very inexpensively. The Kovels' (he has gone on to the great antique show in the heavens) books contain little historic or glassmaking information. They are strictly price guides, outdated from the moment of publication, and I believe the most recent is the 13th Edition, published in 2006.

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[Harry Pristis]

That's good advice from Surf. I could pitch out every price guide on my shelf and never miss them. I would sorely miss Munsey, Van den Bossche, and McKearin-Wilson.

 

[surf]

Amen, Harry.

Coily, here's a good one: